wwyd?... nice furniture in app or wait for home?

I know we are living in our apartment for at least another yr+ I have done my best to cheaply furnish our living room. I had a cute white Ikea couch. Well, 1 DH + 1 Puppy & it looks like trash. Our entertainment center broke about an hour after we assembled it. I loathe looking at the thing.

I really want to at least invest in my dream entertainment center. DH told me just wait till we get in a house. I know what I like & I doubt it will change. I want to enjoy where I live & with our current horrible furniture I can't!! DH says I don't know how things will fit into our house- he doesn't get how I hate our furniture!!

Besides I doubt we will have much $$ left after we buy a house to get nice furniture.

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Trust me, wait! Two years ago I bought all new living room, office and dining room furniture because I rationalized I would need a lot of furniture in a house.... Well, because of the layout of my living room, my expensive new set doesnt work and is being relegated to the basement! Hold off if you can!

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We bought our LR furniture while we were in our apt and just brought it over to our house when we bought it.

I think you have to love your space and be happy and comfortable where ever you are.

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The rational part of me would say to wait until you get a house. What I wanted as a media center would not have worked in our house at all. It would for our basement but it would've broke my heart after spending the $$$ to have it sit in storage for 1+years until we refinished the basement. So I was glad that we didn't buy it.

The other part of me says you have to be comfortable with your living arrangement. I'd get it if I absolutely must have it and could afford it. Maybe your future house will accommodate it and if not, maybe you can sell it as a last resort.

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we bought nice quality but imperfect furniture from CORT when i was in law school (hugely discounted but very nice stuff) so that I wouldn't feel obligated to keep it after graduation, but I kept most of it...

highly recommend CORT if you want great quality but inexpensive non-forever stuff.

we did buy a few nice pieces from crate and barrel (a china cabinet and bookcase) that we knew we would want long term but i'd hold off on buying too much... we got an incredible fitted slipcover for our couch because we'd rather hold off on buying a new one

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i'm in your shoes right now..i desperately want a new couch.

we are looking for homes now, so i figure if we get a couch now and buy soon, i can add on to the collection in the home.

or, when you go to buy a home, the couch can be placed in a guest room/office for the time being..or even sold on craigslist.

i'm still hemming and hawing though...i hate my current couch!

Re: wwyd?... nice furniture in app or wait for home?

I would wait.

You will be moving shortly (about 1 year or so!).

You don't know the layout of your new house and the furniture may not work in the new layout.

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Most most things I'd wait. But when we bought our HDTV, I made sure to get the tv stand that I REALLY wanted, even though I had to order online and wait months for it to be in stock. I just love it and know that I want it for my house someday. So having one nice piece that you look at constantly can do a world of difference.

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wait, we are still living with our old apartment furniture and we have been in the house three months and do not plan on buying anything until a year or so. Once you live in the house things change. As we are doing work we keep thinking on where we will put the TV/entertainment center because once we tear down the kitchen wall it can't go where it's originally at.

Same thing with not knowing what type of house you will get - might be open plan, might be partial, you might have a fireplace with built ins etc.

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Wait!

Who knows what size/ shape LR you'll have it your house. A color scheme that looks good in your apt may look terrible in the house. Hold off!!!!

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I would wait, you want to plan around the house, not the furniture

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Posted by jps

we bought nice quality but imperfect furniture from CORT when i was in law school (hugely discounted but very nice stuff) so that I wouldn't feel obligated to keep it after graduation, but I kept most of it...

highly recommend CORT if you want great quality but inexpensive non-forever stuff.

we did buy a few nice pieces from crate and barrel (a china cabinet and bookcase) that we knew we would want long term but i'd hold off on buying too much... we got an incredible fitted slipcover for our couch because we'd rather hold off on buying a new one

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While we were in our apartment, we bought our large entertainment center. It fit in our apartment and we though for sure it was a good investment for our house for the future. But if I had to do it all over again, I would not have bought the entertainment center. It fits in our LR in our house, but I would like something smaller since the LR isn't that big. So for me I would say wait. Or maybe you could buy something small like just a TV stand and not the full center. You never know what size house you will have in the future. But you should be comfortable where you live now. But in reason if you really are going to buy now. GL!

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I would wait....we are still using the entertainment center DH bought for our apt and I don't like the way it fits in our house. Unfortuantely he really likes it.

My suggestion would be to search craig's list and similar for pieces that are more like what you are looking for. That's how we got the couch and loveseat we had in our apt and they were nice, but the people were moving and couldn't take them. We sold them again on craig's list when we moved. You can really find some great stuff that people just don't want to take with them, and you can get something nice without spending a ton!

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if you hate it, i would get something cheap that will make you happy in the meantime - target has nice consoles for cheap...then wait for a house to buy everything...

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I would wait.
I remember when we were in an apartment we had this futon the was horrible, I wanted a nice leather sofa but knew I wanted spanking new furniture in our new home so we waited.
I went to Jo-ann fabrics and bought couple yards of a nice fabric and covered the futon.

maybe you can do that to the sofa?

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Wait. I totally understand where you're coming from though! We lived in a small apartment for 4 years while saving for a home. There were moments where I wanted to make some big purchases to make the place more livable. DH flat out refused to go for any of it and in the end, he was right. Looking back, some of the things I wanted to splurge on would never work in our home.

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I know it's hard but I would wait. You don't want to really waste money on things now that you may not even want in your house that you buy. Although, we couldn't take it any longer and purchased a new bedroom set while we were renting a house. It fits perfect in our new house and I was happy to have at least one room with relatively new furniture in it right way.

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Def wait. You never know what will fit in your home so don't waste big bucks yet.

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We live in an apt. right now and JUST LIKE YOU... the nice off white/light tan couch we got was destroyed after a couple of months!! (DH like to eat in the living room and he is clumsy, lol)

I knew we couldnt get a new couch so I got couch covers from BBB (the elastic ones that are stretchy) in choclate brown and it literally looks like I have brand new couches!! It cost about $120... much better than a new couch set